Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Herford

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Oliver North

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

Oliver Goldsmith

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Margaret Atwood

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

Marcus Luttrell

With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The First Bond of Society is Marriage.

Kinky Friedman

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

Kinky Friedman

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Margaret Thatcher

Just rejoice at the news and congratulate our armed forces and the Marines. Rejoice!

Margaret Thatcher

Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.

Mark Twain

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

Mark Twain

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

Mark Twain

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

Mark Twain

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Dennis Rodman

I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is difficult. If it happens, it will be a mark in history.

Gray Davis

I am mandating that by March 15th every retail establishment in this state substantially reduce their outdoor lighting,

Hunter S. Thompson

Bill Clinton does not inhale marijuana, right? You bet. Like I chew on LSD but I don't swallow it.'

Howard Stern

I'm for legalizing marijuana. Why pick on those drugs? Valium is legal. You just go to a doctor and get it and overdose on it - what's the difference? Prozac, all that stuff, so why not marijuana? Who cares? It's something that grows out of the ground - why not? Go smoke a head of cabbage. I don't care what you smoke.

Honore de Balzac

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honore de Balzac

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honore de Balzac

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Honore de Balzac

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Honore de Balzac

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

Honore de Balzac

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Honore de Balzac

A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.

Honore de Balzac

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Honore de Balzac

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Jay McInerney

It's the cynics who never get married.

Jay Leno

And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't -- What Was I Talking About?'